My desktop’s hard drive crashed last week while I was out of the office. While that was perfect timing for me, the issue didn’t get resolved until today when I was informed that a new one was on order. Awesome! Who doesn’t love new toys?
In the meantime, I’ve set up two lap tops. One has been acting strange (and is currently being scanned for viruses) so I borrowed a second one to use for internet while utilizing the strange one for word documents and accessing our network. Awkward, but still useful. Until the wireless went out in our office meaning I couldn’t access my:
a. email
b. network
c. files
d. any one of our five office printers
So until it was resolved five hours later, I checked email from my cell phone (until the battery went low) and tried to find things I could accomplish that didn’t include the above bulleted list. Which wasn’t much.
I was lost.
Besides this sounding like a country song about technology, I realize that I need to work on unplugging my life a little bit at a time. I check Facebook at red lights and unlock my phone as soon as the green indicator tells me I have a new text/email/tweet. All unnecessary as the world will continue if I’m not up on the last second life crisis of some Facebook friend I don’t even talk to these days. (I realize that blogging about this technological malfunction of a day isn’t and will never be considered unplugging… but I can’t distribute to the masses via pen and paper, so we’ll let this example slide. )
I brought this up to my boss today as her computer has also died and we are like antsy kids waiting for Christmas morning. So I guess baby steps are key to not being ruled by my Droid. Hopefully the withdrawal symptoms are not intense.
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